Let rain fall ever so heavily, a cab could take him down to "'Change,"-the worst weather never marred a sale of stock, and Consols could rise even while the mercury was falling.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
For, truth to tell, it was known that Mason had one hundred and fourteen pounds deposited in Consols with a certain old lady in Threadneedle Street.
"The Star-Gazers"
George Manville Fenn